Leading UK Storage VAD
Turns 20
London
- May 7, 2008 - CMS Peripherals today officially celebrates 20 years
in business.
Founded in 1988, CMS Peripherals is the largest
independent value-added distributor of information storage products and
solutions in the U with anual revenue of approx $250 million.
...CMS Peripherals
profile, Storage
History
New Models from Solid Access Technologies
Newburyport,
Mass - May 6, 2008 - Solid Access Technologies today announced higher
capacity models in its 2U rackmount line of RAM SSDs.
The
128GB model (price $75,000) is shipping now. The 256GB models will ship next
month. Both models are part of the USSD 200 product line - which dramatically
increases server efficiency by recovering CPU cycles formally lost in I/O wait
cycles. They deliver random read/write performance of 95,000 IOPS using a single
Fibre Channel link and over 70,000 IOPS using SAS. Access time is under 10
microseconds
"For applications facing critical performance
demands that can't be serviced by decades old spindle-based storage, ultra-fast
SSD is emerging as a weapon of choice to improve lagging storage speed,"
said Solid Access Managing Partner, Tomas Havrda. ...Solid Access
Technologies profile
Seagate First to Ship a Giga Hard Drives
SCOTTS
VALLEY, Calif - April 22, 2008 - Seagate Technology announced it is
the first hard drive manufacturer to have shipped 1 billion hard drives.
Seagate says that although it took 29 years to reach the 1 billion
milestone, it will ship its next billion in less than 5 years. Also, by the time
its nearest competitor reaches 1 billion drives shipped, Seagate will already be
close to shipping its second billion.
According to
Gartner, in 2007 alone
more than 500 million drives were shipped, compared to 1990, when slightly less
than 30 million were shipped. ...Seagate profile
Editor's
comments:- I forgot to check if there's a footnote somewhere defining a "billion".
You've got to be so careful nowadays to get the right meaning for once arcane
big number adjectives (like Giga) when they seep into the public domain and get
misunderstood.
Wasabi Improves RAID Adapter Support in iSCSI OS
Norfolk,
Virginia - April 2, 2008 - Wasabi Systems today released v4.1 of its
network storage operating system, Wasabi Storage Builder for iSCSI SAN.
Some of the new features include:- support for RAID 6, 60 for most current
LSI,
Intel,
SuperMicro and
3ware
SAS /
SATA
RAID controllers,
including improved logging and error recovery capability and full support for
LSI 1078. Extended reliability options for nested RAID levels in addition to
those offered by the RAID controller, including RAID 61, 51.
Wasabi
Storage Builder v4.1 provides full support for virtualized server environments
using both VMware and Virtual Iron products, and the ability to use the Wasabi
Storage Builder target to boot diskless servers, workstations or clients using
WinBoot or NetBoot products from emBoot Inc. MSRP starts at $1,695. ...Wasabi Systems profile
Fujifilm Launches Wireless Backup Tape Tracker
VALHALLA,
N.Y. - March 26, 2008 - Fujifilm today announced the immediate
availability of the Fujifilm Tape Tracker, a wireless tool to help data
managers increase security of data by tracking in real-time the location and
status of sensitive removable media cartridges while in transit.
The Fujifilm Tape Tracker (patents pending) is designed within a 0.5" tape
cartridge format, enabling it to fit snugly and discreetly inside nearly any
tape media case. The Fujifind application uses the information, tracking,
geo-fencing and notification capability of SC-Integrity's
LoJack
InTransit monitoring solution.
"The tremendous feedback we received from customers when we
introduced this concept last year made clear - there is a significant desire to
maintain visibility and control over removable media during shipment from one
location to another," said Daniel Greenberg at Fujifilm Recording Media. "The
ability of tape to store
large quantities of data in a cost effective, energy efficient, removable format
make it a preferred medium to backup and archive critical business data. The
Tape Tracker gives power back to the data managers to maintain a chain of
custody for these assets as they move between data center backup, vault or
disaster recovery destinations."
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Flash
Memory vs. Hard Disk Drives - Which Will Win? - article by Semico Research
There's
a confusing picture in many consumer products like phones, cameras and music
players in which one day it seems that the storage function is done by flash
and next day another company announces they're doing the same thing with
miniature hard disks.
Is there any sense to this seemingly random
choice?
This article uses pricing trends, technology trends and
unique market analysis insights to show that users and oems may be able to
reliably predict which storage devices will be most cost effective depending
where you are on the future history curve. ...read the article,
...Semico Research profile,
Hard disk drives,
Flash Memory,
Market research,
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